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This test consists of 15 multiple choice questions and 5 short answer questions.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. How many people does Bao-yu share the romantic/erotic stories with?
(a) One.
(b) Two.
(c) Three
(d) None.

2. Xi-feng's infant daughter becomes ill with _____.
(a) Chickenpox.
(b) Typhoid.
(c) Scarlet fever.
(d) Smallpox.

3. What is Jia Rong offered immediately after there is concern about his status?
(a) A marriage proposal.
(b) A spot as a courtier of the Imperial Court.
(c) A job in a bakery.
(d) A spot in the Corps of Officers of the Imperial Guard.

4. What do Bao-yu's pages take from him after the naming party for the garden for Yuan-chun?
(a) All of his trinkets.
(b) All of his wine.
(c) The purse given to him Dai-yu.
(d) His magical jade.

5. Who visits Aroma's home with Bao-yu?
(a) Tealeaf.
(b) Yu-chun.
(c) Patience.
(d) Qin-shi.

6. What important event happens on the day of Jia Zheng's birthday?
(a) Xi-feng returns home.
(b) Qin Zhong falls ill.
(c) Yuan-chun is chosen as an Imperial Concubine.
(d) Bao-yu's study is finished.

7. What happens to Jia Zheng's dislike for Bao-yu towards the end of the novel?
(a) It cannot get higher.
(b) It decreases.
(c) It increases.
(d) It is put on hold.

8. It is Yuan-chun's hope that this move to live with the girls _____.
(a) Will increase his intelligence.
(b) Will make him become more mature.
(c) Will stop him from eating lipstick.
(d) Will encourage the boy to study more.

9. Who gives temporary names to places and things in the garden for Yuan-chun?
(a) Jia Zheng and Yuan-chun.
(b) Bao-yu and Qin Zhong.
(c) Xi-feng.
(d) Jia Zheng, his literary friends, and Bao-yu.

10. Who is the love interest of Bao-yu's newly adopted "son" Jia Yun?
(a) Musk.
(b) Crimson.
(c) The Mattress.
(d) Aroma.

11. What does Yuan-chun remind the family of as she departs from the garden?
(a) Her disappointment at being made a concubine.
(b) Her desire for them to be happy.
(c) How impressed she is with garden.
(d) All the opportunities they will have to visit each other.

12. What gift does Shui Rong give to Bao-yu?
(a) A rosary.
(b) A tunic.
(c) A ring.
(d) A necklace.

13. What servant finds a lock of The Mattress's hair in Jia Lian's things?
(a) Patience.
(b) Tealeaf.
(c) Lin-yang.
(d) Aroma.

14. Who dies at the end of Chapter 16?
(a) Qin Zhong.
(b) Jia Zheng.
(c) Qin-shi.
(d) Sappy.

15. What is there concern about when it comes to Jia Rong's status?
(a) He is only an Imperial College Student.
(b) He is disrespectful of societal hierarchies.
(c) He has been caught with a prostitute.
(d) He is openly unambitious.

Short Answer Questions

1. Who does Bao-yu see sleeping with a girl?

2. To whose house does Bao-yu wander to to study to look at a painting that he likes?

3. What arrangements does Xi-feng talk to her husband about in relation to get-togethers?

4. In her anger at Bao-yu, what does Dai-yu cut up?

5. Who are the invitees to Bao-yu's birthday party?

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